Recent content by slapshot1959

I think the problem was my video drivers. Updated them (ATI Radeon 4800 series) and so far so good. I noticed that right before it would BSOD my screen would distort/flash coming out of sleep (using a Samsung tv as a monitor) and so I checked my drivers,updated them and like I said, seems good...

A couple weeks ago I updated my Dell 435TXPS to BIOS revision A16, and since then when coming out of sleep sometimes (like overnight, or a least after a few hours sleeping) I'll get the BSOD. Is it possible to rollback the BIOS to the previous one I had by reflashing or is that impossible? This...

To answer your question,I would start over and make sure you highlight the right partition (C system drive in my case).Obviously you will run out of room extremely quick where you are now so you need to install it on the right partition. It is a little confusing at first,and thats why I made...

I already did one, which what this thread was about. Now I'm about to do the second one,which has much more valuable data on so I don't want to lose anything.Need good backup and transfer ideas so as to preserve all data. Going from Vista 32bit to Windows 7,either 32 or 64,clean install.

So basically if I never need or want to go back to the factory Vista,I can't? So why would I? :rolleyes: It's a fairly new pc,and is not my primary one so there was nothing critical or important on it. Up next is my primary pc,and before I install W 7 on that one,what is the best back up...

Is the recovery partition where the system restore files are stored? I assume that is what is meant by "recovery".

Ok, just didn't know if it was safe to do so. So if I format the whole partition,all data there will be wiped but it's nothing to worry about? Just want to understand properly.

C D is Recovery

Neglected to mention that I ran out of space in that partition because I was reinstalling my apps when I was notified by one of the apps that my disk space was critically low. That's when I realized what had happened. I don't care about the previous os,(Vista) as it was a fairly new computer...

New member here,got a W7 install issue. First time I installed W7 I did a clean install but I guess I chose the wrong drive partition,(it's not obvious what to use!)as it wound up in my recovery D disk. So all 15 GB's are used up. I did subsequently reinstall,again doing a clean install over...